Mitrush Kuteli in the Albanian literature

TIRANA, Sept. 13 – A ceremony was held Thursday in the eastern lake city of Pogradec to commemorate one of their personalities in literature _ Mitrush Kuteli would be 99 years. Kuteli has turned into a symbol of a fine artist of letters who was also imprisoned by the former communist regime.
Mitrush Kuteli, a well known writer for the Albanian prose, confronted the depth of the human being’s spirituality with life, death and love. Everyone would remember his personalities in the prose like “Xha Brahua of Shkumbanore”, “Kollozhegu night”, “Autumn of Xheladin Beu”, “How Ago Jakupi found God’s road”, “In vain…”, “Great river”, “My village drinks raki”, “Spring in Transilvania”, and also some poems like the “Kosovar poem”, “Albanian mud”, “Sh쯤aumi poem” and “If I die in foreign land.”.
Kuteli graduated for economy in Bucharest, Romania but he was closely linked with the Albanian letters since 1928 when he started to publish some critical articles on Albanian writers and also some short stories on Albania and Romania’s Constanza. Kosova criticist Sabri Hamiti concluded at a study on Kuteli that he was a mediator in the Albanian prose because of his “wealth of the Albanian language and the language of writing from this author, who is one of the greatest masters of the Albanian language in prose.” Kuteli’s works had no time limits. Life in countryside, immigration and spiritual world, revenge, poverty and property gaps are among the issues most covered from him through entering in the psychological and spiritual analysis of the people portrayed there.
Kuteli read Konstantin Kristoforidhi and Spiro Dine to preserve his Albanian language when living abroad. That helped him to model the artistic expressions with the folk language and the depth of the people’s mentality. In his testament Kuteli said that “professionalism in literature in our country, for the moment a road of suffering, its bread is sour. Sour for the one who does not know tricks and hypocrisy. The literature terrain is a plot of land where snakes exist. Friends kill you when you give them a shadow. And when you do not make a shadow they say you are not capable for literature…”
Kuteli, son of a taylor, was born in Pogradec Sept. 13, 1907. he was baptized as Dhimit첮 He graduated high school in Salonika, Greece and in 1928 went to Bucharest for economic studies. In 1938 he published his first book “Albanian night.” Together with Vedat Kokona, Sterjo Spasse and Nexhat Hakiu he published the Albanian magazine “New world.” Kuteli passed away May 4, 1967.